Detachable shirt-cuff.



F. J. ARNEY. DETACHABLE SHIRT CUFF. APPLICATION man JULY 7. I917.

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lUldfTElW @TltTEd rtTFllid FRANK J. ARNEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DETAGHABLE SHIRT'CUFF.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 22, 1918.

Application filed July 7, 1917. Serial No. 179,201.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK J. ARNEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of the Bronx, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Detachable Shirt-Cuff, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved detachable shirt cuff arranged securely to hold the cuff accurately in position on the shirt sleeve and giving it the appearance of a cuff permanently attached to the sleeve. A :t'urtherobject is to dispense with buttons on the shirt sleeve and to permit the user to conveniently place the cuff in position on the sleeve and to secure it in place and close the sleeve by the use of a cuff button.

In order to accomplish the desired result, use is made of a shirt sleeve provided with a sleeve band having forwardly projecting loops, a cuff provided with buttonholes adapted to register with the said loops, and a single cuff button engaging the said buttonholes and loops to attach the cuff to the said sleeve and close both the cuff and the sleeve band.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the end of a shirt sleeve and cuff, both shown in open disassembled position;

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same sh0wing the cuff and the sleeve assembled and with the cuff button engagingone of the buttonholes in the cuff and a corresponding registering loop;

Fig. 3 is a front end view of the cuff at tached to the sleeve;

Fig. 41 is a cross section of the cuff and sleeve on the line 1% of Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a similar View of the cuff on the line 55 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 6 is a front edge View of a portion of the cuff and sleeve in closed position.

The forward end of a shirt sleeve 10 is provided with a sleeve band 11 and with the usual split 12 extending lengthwise of the forearm portion of the sleeve. The body 1 1 of the cufi is made of superimposed outer and inner plies l5 and 16 fastened together extending lengthwise on ply 16 and secured thereto by stitches 21 and 22, of which the stitches 21 also serve to fasten the forward ends of the retaining bands 1.8 and 19 in position. By the arrangement described the retaining bands 18 and 19 are disconnected from the inner ply 16 intermediate the ends of the said bands 18 and 19 to permit of passing the ends of the shirt sleeve band 11 under the said retaining bands, as plainly indicated in Fig. 2. Immediately in front of the retaining bands 18 and 19 are arranged buttonholes 25 and 26 extending through both plies 15 and 16 and disposed parallel with the band 20 adjacent the inner edge thereof, as will be readily understood by reference to Figs. 1 and 2. The sleeve band 11 is provided on its forward edge with loops 27 and 28 adapted to register with the buttonholes 25, 26 on placing the sleeve band 11 in position under the retaining bands 18 and 19, as plainly shown in Fig. 2. When the loops 27 and 28 are in registering position with the buttonholes 25 and 26 then. the usual cuff button 29 is engaged with the said registering buttonholes and loops 25, 27 and 26, 28 to close the sleeve band 11 and the cuff body 14 and to hold securely the cuff in locked position on the sleeve band 11, as will be readily understood by reference to Fig. 3.

From the foregoing it will be seen that by the arrangement described, the buttons and buttonholes are dispensed with as far as the band 11 is concerned, and by extending the sleeve band 11 under the retaining bands 18 and 19, the cuff is firmly held in place on the sleeve and is securely locked thereto as soon as the user has engaged the cuff button 29 with the registering buttonholes and loops 25, 27 and 26, 28.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to. secure by Letters Patent 1. In combination, a shirt sleeve provided with a sleeve band having forwardly pro jecting loopsfa cuff provided with retaining bands under Which the sleeve band is to be passed and infront of the bands with buttonholes adapted to register with the said loops, whereby a single cuff button inay'engage the said bnttonholes and loops to attach the cuff to the shirt sleeveand to close both the cuff and the sleeve band.

2, In combination, a shirt sleeve provided with a sleeve band having button receiving openings, and a calf having retaining means underwhich the sleeve band is adapted to be passed and having bnttonholes in front of the retaining means and registering with the openings of the sleeve banch whereby provision is made for securely holding the cuff in position on the sleeve band and the latter closed by a eufl button.

3. A cuff having a innlti-ply calf body provided on the inner face of the innermost ply with diagonally disposed retaining bands extending from the sides of the cuff Copies of this patent may be obtained for toward each other and forward, the retaining bands bein attached at the ends to the cuff body and being free of the inner face of the cuff body intermediate the attached ends, and bnttonholes formed on the cuff body in front of the forward edges of the said retaining band.

4. A cuff having a lnnlti-ply (-ntf body provided on the inner face of the innermost ply \vith diagonally disposed retaining bands extending from the sides of the cntl' toward each other and forward. the retaining banes being attached at the ends to the cuff body and being free of the inner face of the cuff body intermediate the attached ends, bnttonheles formed on the cuff body in front of the forward edges of the said retaining band. and a longitndinally extending band overlying the forward ends of the said diagonal retaining bands and secured to the cuff body.

FRANK "l. llINl 'll.

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